Comments on: Manila, II http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/ Braindumps on things Mel Chua has found shiny lately. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erin http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Erin Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:27:00 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/#comment-355 Hmmm...that's funny....all of the instructions on this page are in French now....I wonder how that happened. ANYway...<br/><br/>I've got a textbook that was pretty good about describing how to make the consonant sounds in mandarin (tongu position, etc.)- what's your e-mail these days? I can transcribe it for you, if you want. Hmmm…that’s funny….all of the instructions on this page are in French now….I wonder how that happened. ANYway…

I’ve got a textbook that was pretty good about describing how to make the consonant sounds in mandarin (tongu position, etc.)- what’s your e-mail these days? I can transcribe it for you, if you want.

]]> By: Mel http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Mel Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:32:00 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/#comment-354 Learning how to read doesn't help me learn how to speak, but given that I can process written English an order of magnitude or so faster than spoken English, I reckoned it would probably make sense for me to do the same in Chinese.<br/><br/>And yeah... the simplified vs traditional characters thing is cool, but also annoying when you're trying to learn. And dictionaries. Chinese dictionaries are painful to use. Augh. Learning how to read doesn’t help me learn how to speak, but given that I can process written English an order of magnitude or so faster than spoken English, I reckoned it would probably make sense for me to do the same in Chinese.

And yeah… the simplified vs traditional characters thing is cool, but also annoying when you’re trying to learn. And dictionaries. Chinese dictionaries are painful to use. Augh.

]]> By: Christie http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Christie Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:27:00 +0000 http://blog.melchua.com/2007/10/02/manila-ii/#comment-353 Jet lag coming the other way (ie back to the States) is waaay worse! :D<br/><br/>I'm confused about how learning how to read helps learning how to speak: characters don't sound like anything, they just...are...so is trying to learn how to read to learn how Chinese grammar is structured? Also, characters are difficult...especially if you learned traditional and can't make much sense of the simplified that is used in China.. :D Good luck! Jet lag coming the other way (ie back to the States) is waaay worse! :D

I’m confused about how learning how to read helps learning how to speak: characters don’t sound like anything, they just…are…so is trying to learn how to read to learn how Chinese grammar is structured? Also, characters are difficult…especially if you learned traditional and can’t make much sense of the simplified that is used in China.. :D Good luck!

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